Our Old Actors. With Portraits. In Two Volumes; London
London: Richard Bentley And Sons, 1878. [First Edition]. Leather bound. 8vo., 3/4 leather & marbled boards, pp. 402, 379, frontis portraits each volume, text has 5 plates. Includes chapters on Betterton, Cibber, Foote, Garrick, Edmund Kean, the Kembles, Macklin, Macready and Tate Wilkinson. Arnott & Robinson. Very good +. Item #10768
"Author: Henry Barton Baker (1835–1906), Biography: Henry Barton Baker was born in 1835. He worked as a miscellaneous writer of journalism, biography, popular works about the stage, and fiction. His novel Strafford: A Romance is a historical novel about the English Revolution. By the late 1890s he was receiving money from the Royal Literary Fund and the Press Fund, including a £30 pension. He died in 1906".-victorianresearch.com.
Price: $135.00